Tiny minerals are revolutionizing our understanding of textbooks. Easter Island consists of several extinct volcanoes. The ...

A vast, ancient slab of seafloor plunged beneath the Pacific Ocean and has hovered in Earth’s mantle for more than 120 ...

In a new animation, scientists map the planet's plate tectonics over the last 40 percent of its history. It's the longest ...

Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause ...

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various ...

The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a ...

An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

Researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), along with collaborators from ...

The two tremors shifted the entire Anatolian plate to the west, a phenomenon that necessitates a reevaluation of existing ...

Researchers have discovered enormous tube worms and other creatures thriving in cavities beneath the seafloor on the East ...